Cures Within Reach Young Professionals Board Launches Cureaccelerator™ Live!
Pitch Event to Drive Repurposing Research Progress and Awareness
SKOKIE, Ill. - Feb. 11, 2016 - PRLog -- MEDIA ALERT
WHAT:
CureAccelerator™
WHO:
The Cures Within Reach Young Professionals Board
WHERE:
Insight PD LLC
4460 Ravenswood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
WHEN:
March 22, 2016
6:00 p.m. Open networking
6:30 p.m. Program start and remarks with featured pitches and panel of judges Q&A
7:45 p.m. Networking, interactive pitch stations and voting
8:15 p.m. Closing remarks and winner announcement
Information and Registration:
For sponsorship information, please contact Susan Braze, cwrypb@gmail.com
Tickets are $35
WHY:
The goal of CureAccelerator™
The repurposing research projects that will be pitched during the event include:
-Repurposing Metformin to Treat and Improve Survival in Aggressive Lymphomas by Reem Karmali, MD from Rush University Medical Center
-Saving Limbs: Helping Nature Do Its Magic by George Havelka, MD, from the University of Illinois at Chicago
-Recolonizing Intestinal Bacteria for the Treatment of Pediatric C. Diff (Clostridium Difficiile) by Stacy Kahn, MD from the University of Chicago
-Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: The Use of Thiamine to Prevent Delirium in Cardiac Surgeries by Eitezaz Mahmood at Northwestern University, in coordination with Beth Israel Deaconess
Other projects selected to be featured at the event include:
-Ryanodine Receptor Inhibitors as Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease by Grace Stutzmann at Rosalind Franklin University
-Treating Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease by T Celeste Napier at Rush University Medical Center
ABOUT CURES WITHIN REACH
Cures Within Reach (http://www.cureswithinreach.org) works to catalyze repurposing research to quickly and affordably improve patient lives. We accomplish this through collaborations that connect researchers and funding, by facilitating crowd sourcing and community, and by identifying alternative financing models and incentives. Cures Within Reach’s repurposing research projects have generated 12 “new” treatments making an impact through off-label use in clinical practice or through a commercialization track.
ABOUT CUREACCELERATOR™
Cures Within Reach built CureAccelerator (http://www.cureaccelerator.org)to provide a global collaboration space and market for repurposing research that can deliver effective solutions to unsolved diseases. The CureAccelerator platform was built with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to explore whether drugs, devices and nutriceuticals approved for one or more human diseases can be repurposed to create “new” treatments in other diseases.
Visit us at www.cureswithinreach.org or follow us via Twitter.com/
WHAT:
CureAccelerator™
WHO:
The Cures Within Reach Young Professionals Board
WHERE:
Insight PD LLC
4460 Ravenswood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
WHEN:
March 22, 2016
6:00 p.m. Open networking
6:30 p.m. Program start and remarks with featured pitches and panel of judges Q&A
7:45 p.m. Networking, interactive pitch stations and voting
8:15 p.m. Closing remarks and winner announcement
Information and Registration:
For sponsorship information, please contact Susan Braze, cwrypb@gmail.com
Tickets are $35
WHY:
The goal of CureAccelerator™
The repurposing research projects that will be pitched during the event include:
-Repurposing Metformin to Treat and Improve Survival in Aggressive Lymphomas by Reem Karmali, MD from Rush University Medical Center
-Saving Limbs: Helping Nature Do Its Magic by George Havelka, MD, from the University of Illinois at Chicago
-Recolonizing Intestinal Bacteria for the Treatment of Pediatric C. Diff (Clostridium Difficiile) by Stacy Kahn, MD from the University of Chicago
-Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: The Use of Thiamine to Prevent Delirium in Cardiac Surgeries by Eitezaz Mahmood at Northwestern University, in coordination with Beth Israel Deaconess
Other projects selected to be featured at the event include:
-Ryanodine Receptor Inhibitors as Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease by Grace Stutzmann at Rosalind Franklin University
-Treating Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease by T Celeste Napier at Rush University Medical Center
ABOUT CURES WITHIN REACH
Cures Within Reach (http://www.cureswithinreach.org) works to catalyze repurposing research to quickly and affordably improve patient lives. We accomplish this through collaborations that connect researchers and funding, by facilitating crowd sourcing and community, and by identifying alternative financing models and incentives. Cures Within Reach’s repurposing research projects have generated 12 “new” treatments making an impact through off-label use in clinical practice or through a commercialization track.
ABOUT CUREACCELERATOR™
Cures Within Reach built CureAccelerator (http://www.cureaccelerator.org)to provide a global collaboration space and market for repurposing research that can deliver effective solutions to unsolved diseases. The CureAccelerator platform was built with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to explore whether drugs, devices and nutriceuticals approved for one or more human diseases can be repurposed to create “new” treatments in other diseases.
Visit us at www.cureswithinreach.org or follow us via Twitter.com/
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| Tags | : | Repurposing, Reserach, Medical |
|---|---|---|
| Industry | : | Science |
| Location | : | Skokie - Illinois - United States |
| Subject | : | Events |
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